New motherboard...


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Okay...once again...looking at a different motherboard this time for my PIII 1.0 Ghz. I've heard good reviews about it around the web, but would like your opinion on it as well

ASUS CUV266

...or should i go for something like

CUV266-D or CUV266-DLS...??

I have:

ASUS CUSL2-C mobo

SBLive! Value sound card

ASUS GeForce2 MX 400 64 MB video card

RICOH 6/4/24 burner

Pioneer 16X DVD-ROM

Dazzle FireWire card

Maxtor 30 GB HD

...besides RAM *I use PC133 SD and the mobo only supports DDR i think*...i shouldn't have any compatibility issue, should I?...

this is based on the VIA chipset...and i'm on 815e Intel at the moment...

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I currently have a p3 933 running the i815e chipset (bad bad bad), so I gave myself the choice of changing the mobo or upgrading mobo/cpu, I decided the latter, but the cuv266 (via apollo pro) is a good chipset, haven't heard many bad things about it (especially when compared to the i815e)

ecs k7s5a has 4 mem slots, 2 for sd, 2 for ddr, the mem you decide to use can only be one type, no mixing, and its based off the SiS 735 chipset :D best of all, 1800+ cpu and ecs k7s5a can be found very cheap on pricewatch (130$ last I checked)

http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/k7s5a.htm

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i need it for my PIII because the current mobo only supports upto 512 MB RAM and i have that already....don't want to have to upgrade in next couple of years besides the RAM...that's why...:o

and yeah, i will be getting DDR RAM for it...

i wonder how much the 1 GB DDR stick would be...:ponder:

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Asus is preety cool because they have a 3 year warranty on the mobo. + they have something called cop which shuts down your computer if the cpu gets so hot.

I reccomend going with ddr ram because its a standard. if they came out with something faster, you can still use the ddr ram.

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